This is a teaser trailer
for the 2007 comedy film, Borat starring Sacha Baron Cohen. The length of this
teaser trailer is 18 seconds long.
What is presented in this
teaser trailer is a sneak peak of Borat with a man. We learn that Borat is
quite clumsy, and doesn’t have good spatial awareness. This is usually aimed to
make the viewer laugh. This is relating to character comedy which I spoke about
in my comprehensive analysis about the comedy genre.
This teaser trailer is unlike the vast majority of Hollywood teaser trailer, even though it was a commercially successful film. There are various reasons for this. The most important is the fact the director wants to make it seem like an actual documentary, and not like Hollywood fiction. One way in which the director achieves this is through the lack of music. Most teaser trailers have music and Borat wants to distance itself from idea of a franchise and also big Hollywood films that use music to create atmosphere. For example, the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One uses music familiar to fans to connect them with the new film. Borat on the other hand isn't part or a franchise so doesn't have a well-known soundtrack to draw on.
This teaser trailer is unlike the vast majority of Hollywood teaser trailer, even though it was a commercially successful film. There are various reasons for this. The most important is the fact the director wants to make it seem like an actual documentary, and not like Hollywood fiction. One way in which the director achieves this is through the lack of music. Most teaser trailers have music and Borat wants to distance itself from idea of a franchise and also big Hollywood films that use music to create atmosphere. For example, the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One uses music familiar to fans to connect them with the new film. Borat on the other hand isn't part or a franchise so doesn't have a well-known soundtrack to draw on.
How Mise-en-scene is used: All the characters appear
to be wearing very light colors in the teaser trailer, to make them stand out
in the clip. Very bright colors are also used in the clip to set a light tone
for the teaser trailer to appear to fans of the comedy genre. If they used dark
colors it could put the audience off the film, and depict it as a different
type of movie.
Both characters presented
in the teaser trailer have different tones to each other. Borat’s tone is quiet
but has put on a bit of an expression to exaggerate because he’s a foreigner
and people from different countries usually have different accents. They have
done this to make him stand out in the scene as “different” and usually in
comedy movies, the person who stands out is classified as the main comic
relief. The other man has a very normal and calm tone. This is put in because
you can’t have Borat being funny and the other guy being funny because another cliche
that is used in comedy, is the characters reaction when someone does something funny.
The set design is presented in the teaser presents the fact that it is a furniture shop. The reason being for this is a lot of vases, lamps are placed around the whole shop, this is all equipment which is used for furniture and design for someone's house.
The set design is presented in the teaser presents the fact that it is a furniture shop. The reason being for this is a lot of vases, lamps are placed around the whole shop, this is all equipment which is used for furniture and design for someone's house.
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